academhack

Two useful (perhaps) links that are worth taking a look at (both discovered via twitter—thanks twitter friends):

Ideas for Taking Notes: This is a response on meta-filter to ways to take notes when you are reading large sums of material. Some of the methods here will be familiar to academics, and “brain-in-a-box” software like Devon and [...]

If anyone doubts that the age of mobile computing is here compare the lines at your local Apple store (or just search Flickr) and compare those to lines at Sprint, or TMobile. When someone asks me about the iPhone, I explain it is not a phone but rather a portable computer that happens to make [...]

Lately I have been spending more time than usual thinking about the future of education, not just in terms of how to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom, but more broadly how the ubiquitous nature of knowledge and information is going to transform the institution of higher education. Now granted this is a large [...]